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Penny's Thoughts on Fourth Plinth

July 22, 2009 by Marion Maneker

The UK’s National Gallery was holding a preview of its 2010 slate of exhibitions–one on Canaletto showing the painter’s distinctive genius; the other is a show of fakes–but Antony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth project was never far from the journalists minds. Bloomberg‘s Farah Nayeri explains:

As Penny spoke, a woman in a white spacesuit gestured on a plinth outside the gallery’s windows, addressing bystanders with a megaphone. She is part of sculptor Antony Gormley’s 100-day installation “One & Other,” which involves a randomly chosen person occupying the platform for an hour at a time, 24 hours a day.

Penny was asked to give his view of the work.

“It does strike me, as a historian of sculpture, as more to do with theater than sculpture,” he said. “I leave it to the theater critics to decide.”

Canaletto, Fakes to Feature in National Gallery Shows (Bloomberg)

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